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Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century
A collection of classic featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, RL Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope and many others.
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Short Stories Audio Cassette
A collection of powerful, unabridged stories, accompanied by activities for creative language classrooms. Short Stories includes eleven vivid and memorable short stories written by a variety of authors from different backgrounds between the nineteenth century and the present day. Due to their powerful impact, these stories suggest many possibilities for creative activiti...
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Penguin Book of English Short Stories
The Golden Age of the English short story lies from its first wide acceptance in the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentiet
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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce
Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - Jay Rubin
<p>A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore A Penguin Classics Hardcover This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practit...
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Bohemia's Jews and Their Nineteenth Century - Jindřich Toman
Anotace: This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the "quiet" decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers' accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, an...
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Bohemia´s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century - Texts, Contexts, Reassessments - Jindřich Toman
<p>This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers’ accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, and the chang...
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Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the young
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At the End of the Century
Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Macmillan Literature Collection - Twentieth Century Stories - Advanced C2
This series of Readers containing original, unsimplified stories written by famous classic and modern writers, now features four new titles. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary, a description of major themes, pre-reading vocabulary activities, post-reading language and comprehension exercises, a literary ana...
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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 - Patrick McGuinness
<p>'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The IndependentA major new celebration of the French short storyThe short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are decadent tales, 'bloody tales', fairy tales...
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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Bruce Fulton
‘An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to come’ Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial e...
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People from Bloomington - Darma Budi
Anotace: In the 1970s, Budi Darma - one of Indonesia`s most acclaimed writers - lived as a student in Bloomington, Indiana. His experiences formed the basis for the renowed short story collection, The People from Bloomington: a portrait of small-town America that offers an incisive view of the West and the people that inhabit it.In Darma`s America, apartment blocks and g...
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The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
<p>Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. 'They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.' From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volum...
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The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three - Lovecraft Howard Phillips
Anotace: Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott.`They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.`From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume...
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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories - Olivier Henry
<p>O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writing career ranges from New York apartments to the cattle-lands of Texas, taking in con men, clerks, hustlers, shop assistants, tramps and tricksters. They all highlight his ironic, comic eye, his gift for evok...
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Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke
The definitive collection of short stories from the century's greatest science fiction writer.
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Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories - Peter Kuper
<p>Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper presents a mesmerizing interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories. Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evo...
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>‘Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.’<...
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The Black Phone and Other Stories - Joe Hill
<p>A superb collection of short stories from an award-winning author.</p> <p>Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater.Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make f...
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Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction
Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires.
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A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories - Eva Ibbotson
<p>Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersburg. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfe...
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Prague Tales from the Little Quarter
Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the nineteenth century, a time when Prague’s Little Quarter was a sleepy part of the city, composed of narrow, dimly lit streets, proud and stately palaces, and magnificent churches and spires. The quarter remains nearly unchanged today, and...
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Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various
<p>A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, pro...
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Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various
<p>A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insigh...
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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - George Saunders
<p>'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart' Daily Mail ____________ The first short story collec...
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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - Saunders George
Anotace: `One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far` SFX Review `Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best` Anne Enright, Guardian `A triumph of storytelling` i paper`A joy. `Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart` Daily Mail____________The first short story collection ...
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Prague Tales from the Little Quarter - Jan Neruda
Jan Neruda first unveiled his Prague Tales from the Little Quarter in 1878. These stories usher the reader back to the first half of the nineteenth century, a time when Prague’s Little Quarter was a sleepy part of the city, composed of narrow, dimly
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People from Bloomington
In the 1970s, Budi Darma - one of Indonesia's most acclaimed writers - lived as a student in Bloomington, Indiana. His experiences formed the basis for the renowed short story collection, The People from Bloomington: a portrait of small-town America that offers an incisive view of the West and the people that inhabit it. In Darma's America, apartment blocks and gasping a...
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4 - Philip K. Dick
<p>The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' and 'The Electric Ant', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influe...
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 3 - Dick Philip K.
Anotace: The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick`s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick`s work includes the influential `Minority Report` and `Sales Pitch`, as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20...
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 3 - Philip K. Dick
<p>The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'Minority Report' and 'Sales Pitch', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20t...
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4 - Dick Philip K.
Anotace: The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick`s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick`s work includes the influential `We Can Remember It For You Wholesale` and `The Electric Ant`, as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influ...
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The Gift of the Magi - Henry O.
Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York t...
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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice
Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the lum...
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My Friend Maigret: Inspector Maigret #31 - Simenon Georges
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...
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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings - Austenová Jane
Anotace: Jane Austen`s brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense, in a beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition. Jane Austen`s earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals ...
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French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - Stephen Gaukroger
<p>French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was the language of learning there was a universal philosophical literature, but with the rise of vernacular literatu...
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The Imitation of the Rose - Clarice Lispector
<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous ...
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The Gift of the Magi - Olivier Henry
<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York to the ca...
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The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isl...
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Among the Sinners
Among the SinnersWritten in English by Karen von Kunes, an author of short stories and literary criticism, and a Senior Lector at Yale University who was included in The 2012 Princeton Review of The Best 300 Professors (published by Random House).Written in the Kunderian playful style of “lightness of form and heaviness of inquiry,” Karen von Kunes’ debut novel Among the ...
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The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges
<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithMagical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive short story write...
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In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe
A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost anthologists. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn i...
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Agatha Christie´s Poirot : The Greatest Detective in the World - Aldridge Mark
Anotace: From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie`s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world`s favourite fictional detective.This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also ...
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Agatha Christie´s Poirot : The Greatest Detective in the World - Mark Aldridge
<p>From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective.</p> <p>This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories ...
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Among the Sinners - von Kunes Karen
Among the Sinners Written in English by Karen von Kunes, an author of short stories and literary criticism, and a Senior Lector at Yale University who was included in The 2012 Princeton Review of The Best 300 Professors (published by Random House). Written in the Kunderian playful style of “lightness of form and heaviness of inquiry,” Karen von Kunes’ debut novel Among t...
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Among the Sinners - Kunes Karen von
<p>Among the Sinners Written in English by Karen von Kunes, an author of short stories and literary criticism, and a Senior Lector at Yale University who was included in The 2012 Princeton Review of The Best 300 Professors (published by Random House). Written in the Kunderian playful style of “lightness of form and heaviness of inquiry,” Karen von Kunes’ debut nove...
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English Fairy Tales
One of the great nineteenth-century folklorists, Joseph Jacobs collected stories from oral sources and made scholarly notes on their origin, but he de
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Reckoning
Features two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.
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In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe : Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 - Leslie S. Klinger
<p>A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost anthologists.<br /><br /> Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, t...
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Women's Weird
Gothic scholar Melissa Edmundson has brought together a compelling collection of the best Weird short stories by women from the late nineteenth and ea
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Red Ants
This vibrant collection of short stories, the first literary translation to English from Sierra Zapotec, updates magical realism for the 21st century.
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A collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century that includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity o
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Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature Taylor & Francis Ltd
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Persian literature from the seventeenth century through to the present day. It includes coverage of free verse poetry, short stories, the novels, prison writings, memoir, and plays. It is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature....
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Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie
In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories. She gathered twenty-three of them in a collection entitled Bayou Folk in 1894, and followed that three years later with a collection of twenty-one more in A Night in Acadie. Together, these nuanced portraits of nineteenth-century inhabitants of...
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Christmas at Thompson Hall
Anthony Trollope's heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Christmas at Thompson Hall collects the best Christmas tales of Anthony Trollope, the enormously popular author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire and Palliser series of novels. Mostly set in Trollope's imaginary county of Barsetshire, the stories dep...
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Konundrum
In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka’s entire opus of short prose–including works published in the author’s brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals, and letters–for narratives that sound the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish scribe from Prague. It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange,...
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Pride and Prejudice, 1. vydání - Jane Austenová
Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature; Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece has a lasting effect on everyone who reads it. The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the ...
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